# The Cosmolocal Foundation
## Funding Overview for Aligned Philanthropists

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> *"What is heavy should be local, and what is light should be global and shared."*

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## Who We Are

The Cosmolocal Foundation is the operational wing of the **P2P Foundation**, the world's most comprehensive knowledge commons on peer production and commons governance. Founded by **Michel Bauwens** — who has spent two decades researching, documenting, and advising on commons-based economic transitions across four continents — the Foundation builds coordination infrastructure connecting locally rooted regenerative projects into a global network.

We are a small, self-organizing team that practices what we preach: open-source tools, transparent governance, and commons-aligned operations throughout.

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## The Gap We Fill

Regenerative communities are everywhere — eco-villages, cooperatives, transition towns, community land trusts, mutual aid networks. But they remain fragmented, underfunded, and disconnected from each other.

Values-aligned funders want to support systemic transformation, but find few vehicles operating at the right level. Project-level grants create dependency. Extractive impact investments contradict the mission. What's missing is **commons infrastructure** — the shared coordination layer that makes the whole ecosystem more than the sum of its parts.

The cosmolocal principle provides the design logic: **keep production, governance, and stewardship local. Share knowledge, patterns, and tools globally.** The Foundation builds the infrastructure to make this real.

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## What We Do

**Open Knowledge Commons** — Curated repository of regenerative production methods, governance models, and circular economy blueprints drawn from the P2P Foundation's 20-year archive.

**Cosmolocal Coordination** — A global network connecting locally rooted projects to learn from each other and coordinate across bioregions. Mycelial infrastructure that strengthens every node it touches.

**Commons-Compatible Finance** — The Cosmolocal Financing Facility channels capital into community-level projects through commitment pooling — communities issue vouchers backed by real goods and services, creating productive credit circuits without extractive debt.

**Participatory Governance** — Transparent, community-led decision-making combining cooperative governance traditions with conviction voting, quadratic funding, and DAO-based resource allocation.

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## Why Teal Funders

If you resonate with Laloux's evolutionary organizations, this will feel familiar:

- **Self-management**: We build infrastructure for distributed autonomy, not top-down coordination
- **Wholeness**: We refuse false separations between economy and ecology, local and global, productive and care work
- **Evolutionary purpose**: Strategy emerges from sensing what the ecosystem needs, not rigid planning

This is a living system asking you to nourish the soil from which many programs grow.

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## The Ask: $10,000/Month

| Allocation | Monthly | Purpose |
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| **Core Team** | $6,000 | Stipends for 3-4 team members (ops, tech, comms, community) |
| **Infrastructure** | $1,500 | Self-hosted servers, CRM, automation, email |
| **Pilot Seed Funding** | $1,500 | Direct support for partner community pilots |
| **Travel & Convenings** | $1,000 | In-person gatherings and partner visits |

No executive salaries, no office, no consultants, no overhead that doesn't serve the mission. We seek 6-12 month commitments with full transparency and quarterly impact reports.

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## What You Get

- Full financial transparency on every dollar
- Quarterly impact reports
- Optional governance participation in our advisory circle
- Direct access to the P2P Foundation's global network
- Your name associated with foundational commons infrastructure (or anonymity — your choice)
- Potential tax advantages (consult your advisor)

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## Team & Network

**Michel Bauwens** — Founder of P2P Foundation. Led the Ghent Commons Transition Plan. Advisor to Ecuador and the Vatican on commons policy. Two decades of research and global network.

**Jeff Emmett** — Technology & operations. Maintains the Foundation's self-hosted infrastructure and designs the Cosmo-Local Credit protocol. Background in token engineering and Commons Stack.

**Bryan** — Editorial and community communications. Newsletter, publishing, and stakeholder engagement.

**Partners:** Grassroots Economics (commitment pooling), Commons Stack (conviction voting), GAIA Commons Trust (legal infrastructure), Crypto Commons Gathering (movement network).

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**Contact:** hello@cosmolocal.world | [cosmolocal.world](https://cosmolocal.world) | [docs.cosmolocal.world](https://docs.cosmolocal.world)